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Don't forget pizza delivery.

Saying your quoted words is a request for someone to read and respond; it's still pressure and a burden.

This is significant semantic drift from the original meaning of yak shaving. Building your own is great, but it's not yak shaving. Yak shaving is fixing fractal brokenness that you…

More commonly, edit them.

General Relativity was published in 1916.

You don't want the people that run the engineering firms, no. You might want some of the people that work there.

I knew that about the feds, but does it also apply to the states?

Even though you would think that'd be a taking for public use.

Because those are far more general than what he is asking for, and what he is asking for will usually not be seen as covered by your generalization.

To be clear, "Apple" is a group, not a unified thing with one will. That doesn't mean that the engineeers will necessarily ship something more flexible than what the PMs asked for.…

The commissioners?

That's for Charlie Kirk et al, not Jesse Singal.

They didn't. Pure lambda calculus would have been "a function that when applied to a number encoded as a function, extracts that value". They did it essentially as a linked list, C…

They are quite related, but the Fourier transform seems far more beautiful and generalizable: you can do 2-d, 3-d, etc transforms, and they automatically respect the symmetries of …

No, humans can't inspect their own weights either -- but we're not LLMs and don't store all knowledge implicitly as probabilities to output next token. It's pretty clear that we al…

Topics? No, I don't agree with that. Almost any subject can be treated in an age-appropriate manner. A 7-year-old doesn't need to read about nearly any topic. Excluding any mention…

And what dynamic libraries s it linked to? And what other data are they pulling in?

The idea of pathological RAM access patterns is as ridiculous as the idea of pathological division of floating point numbers. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug ). Th…

They cannot. It requires a simple majority in the House followed by a 2/3 majority in the Senate. This is basically impossible to achieve.

They do not create binding precedent. They can create so-called persuasive precedent -- something other courts (and the same district in subsequent opinions) can and do cite when t…

Because no one made it illegal?

I think I agree nearly 100% with this. The tricky part is always selective-enforcement: > But if you criticize only Israel about some issue, and grant a free pass to everyone else …

If that standard were universally applied, even purely defensive wars could not be done.

Unless you're speaking about the high overhead rates, that's really the wrong framing. The public funds at issue are buying things like research, or hospital services.

Depends on what you mean by anti-Zionism. It's not a natural congregation point -- even those that don't think Israel should exist don't generally call themselves anti-Zionist. As …